Multiple Criteria Decision Making

Heterogeneous Sensor Data Fusion for Target Classification Using Adaptive Distance Function.- Selection of Emergency Assembly Points: A Case Study for the Expected Istanbul Earthquake.- Assessing Smartness and Urban Development of the European Cities: An Integrated Approach of Entropy and VIKOR.- An MCDM-Based Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Study for Evaluating Kidney Stone Treatment Alternatives.- Geographic Distribution of the Efficiency of Childbirth Services in Turkey.- Multicriteria Methods and the Hydropower Plants Planning in Brazil.- Regional Examination of Energy Investments in Turkey Using an Intuitionistic Fuzzy Method.- Small Series Fashion Supplier Selection Using MCDM Methods.- Enhanced Performance Assessment of Airlines with Integrated Balanced Scorecard, Network-Based Superefficiency DEA and PCA Methods.- The Effects of Country Characteristics on Entrepreneurial Activities.- A Geometric Standard Deviation Based Soft Consensus Model in Analytic Hierarchy Process.-Coherency: From Outlier Detection to Reducing Comparisons in the ANP Supermatrix.- Usage of Entropy-Based Objective Weighting in Neutrosophic Multiple Attribute Decision-Making.- Implementation of Cumulative Belief Degree Approach to Group Decision-Making Problems Under Hesitancy.- A Literature Survey on Project Portfolio Selection Problem.

Ilker Topcu is a Professor of Decision Sciences at Industrial Engineering Department of Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey, and has been affiliated with ITU since 1994. More recently, he held a visiting professor position at the University of Pittsburgh (USA), Katz Business School, from 2018 through 2019. His research interests include multiple criteria decision making, decision analysis, and operations research/management science. He is an executive committee member of the International Society of Multiple Criteria Decision Making since 2015. He has published several journal papers, book chapters, and conference proceedings. His latest book for Springer is an edited volume entitled "Operations Research Applications in Health Care Management" in 2018.
Özay Özaydin is an Assistant Professor at the Industrial Engineering Department of Dogus University, Turkey. His teaching and research topics are entrepreneurship and innovation, product and process development, decision making, logistics and transportation. He has published journal articles in Interfaces, Transport Policy, European Journal of Operational Research, Knowledge-Based Systems, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, and Research in Transportation Economics. He is also the co-chair of SIG E1 - Transport System Analysis and Economic Evaluation at World Conference on Transport Research Society.
Özgür Kabak an Associate Professor at Industrial Engineering Department of Istanbul Technical University (ITU-IE). Before lecturing in ITU-IE, he spent a year at the Belgium Nuclear Research Centre for post-doctoral research funded by the Belgian Science Policy (BELSPO). He teaches undergraduate and graduate education courses in operations research, group decision-making and logistics management. His research explores how to model complex systems such as socio- economic systems, productions systems, supply chains, logisticsand transportation systems, etc. and how to make decision in group